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It appears that there is no Linux support planned as part of the Window+Mac React Native? That would be an absolute shame, as one of the benefits of Electron i
by benrbray 6y ago
It appears that there is no Linux support planned as part of the Window+Mac React Native? That would be an absolute shame, as one of the benefits of Electron is that I can run VS Code, etc. on Ubuntu.
I'd gladly jump ship from Electron as soon as there's a viable alternative, but we can't forget that it's lack of cross-platform support that got us here in the first place!
- pjmlp 6y agoI have been writing cross platform software since 1994, there was no Electron back then. Electron as idea of shipping a full browser alongside the application has already been born multiple times, just it got luckier this time with the amount of devs that aren't willing to actually learn anything else.
- benrbray 6y agoAny solutions for cross-platform text editing + rich layouts? Afaik that's where native apps really run into trouble, as solo developers don't want to spend time re-inventing the wheel. (Nor should they have to). Especially on Linux, GTK applications really fall short of the Electron alternatives. I'm building an Electron app based around ProseMirror, but would happily jump ship if there were a suitable cross-platform native solution.
- pjmlp 6y agoThen use Qt, or do like we use to do back in the good old days, or as many still do on mobile space, wrap everything that can be made portable in C or C++ logic, using native views on top using MVVM patterns.